Non Profits Come together

– On Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014 Feed the Children
will deliver two truckloads of food and essentials for 800 Indianapolis
families in need. Distribution of the boxes will run from 12:00 p.m. to
2:00 p.m. for the families at the Community Caring and Sharing
headquarters at 2830 South Holt Road in Indianapolis.

Because hunger can’t be tackled alone, Feed the Children’s partner
agency, Community Caring and Sharing, has pre-identified families in
need who will each receive a 25-pound food box and a 10-pound box of
basic essentials. The distribution is part of Feed the Children’s
Americans Feeding Americans Caravan, which has helped more than 435,000
kids and families across the country since it began in 2009.

Hunger affects people all over the United States. One in four
children across the nation can’t afford to buy food, which means they
also can’t afford to buy essentials or school supplies. In Indiana
alone, nearly one in three children are living in poverty. Those kids
could fill up the Lucas Oil Stadium more than five times its capacity.

“At Feed the Children, we’re focused on helping kids be kids,” said
Kevin Hagan, Feed the Children president and CEO. “When kids are hungry,
they are worrying about where their next meal will come from, and
aren’t given the opportunity to just be a kid and have fun. That’s why
we are trying to defeat hunger, to give kids their childhood back.”